Total Angola selects Thermodyn
Posted: 4 September 2003
Total Angola has awarded a contract to Thermodyn, a business unit
of GE Oil & Gas, to supply complete power generation and compression
equipment for a new offshore production facility to be located in
the deepwater Dalia oil field, Block 17, off the coast of Angola.
The new floating production storage offloading (FPSO) unit is scheduled
to begin operation during the second half of 2006.
Thermodyn will supply and install five gas turbines and six compressors.
These machines will be arranged in three packages of 30-megawatt
PGT+25 gas turbine-generators, two packages of HP turbocompressors
(two PGT 25+ gas turbines driving four compressors), and two packages
of LP and export/injection electric motor-driven compressors operating
at 300 bars.
The equipment will be manufactured and tested in the United States,
Italy and France, under Thermodyn's responsibility.
"This is one of the most significant contracts we have received,"
said Yves Menat, Thermodyn general manager. "We are very pleased
that Total, one of the oil and gas industry's leading exploration
and production companies, has selected our technology for this important
project."
Thermodyn, headquartered in Paris with a plant in Le Creusot,
is the GE Oil & Gas Center of Excellence in France for the design,
production and service of low to medium pressure centrifugal compressors
and low to medium power steam turbines. GE Oil & Gas, a unit
of GE Power Systems, is based in Florence, Italy, the home of Nuovo
Pignone, a long-time global leader in gas compression and turbo
generation products
About GE Power Systems
GE Power Systems (www.gepower.com)
is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation technology,
energy services and management systems, with 2002 revenues of nearly
$23 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Power Systems provides
equipment, service and management solutions across the power generation,
oil and gas, distributed power and energy rental industries.
Posted by Richard Price,
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